Monday, September 29, 2008

Once more, with feeling

Gosh, I know I said I wasn't going to write about our wacky Na-kook of the North of a vice presidential candidate anymore, but I simply couldn't resist the return of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on this weekend's “Saturday Night Live.” The really funny (and by funny I mean sad) thing about Tina's reappearance as Republican vice presidential nominee is how close it actually is to the real thing. In fact, it's so close, Tina probably could have just read Palin's answers verbatim from her interview last week with Katie Couric and have elicited the same, and perhaps even bigger, laughs. She is truly a Not Ready for Primetime Player.

Tina on Palin:

Palin on Alaska:

Palin on the bailout:

Palin on deregulation:

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Probably both. One heartbeat away, people. One. Heartbeat. Away. ... Shudder. As Tina said last week at the Emmy Awards:

“I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5. So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me.”

I posted about the original interview on my blog, and how watching Palin's responses reminded me of this quote from Billy Madison:

"Mrs. Palin, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

It's just so sad that THIS woman could end up being the VP. And so, so scary.

I have two thoughts:1. SP will step down before the debate on Thursday, 10/2.

Or

2. We've been punked and she will clean Biden's clock b/c she's supposedly a good debater. The expectations have been set so low for her as far as her unrehearsed speaking (like GWB in the 2000 and 2004 debates) that any style points she receives will be greatly exaggerated. Why aren't the Dems making a big point about her Kenyan witchcraft-exorcising, laying on of hands pastor whose video footage is on youtube. That video of her and him in her church going through this ritual gives me the heebie jeebies. The Repubs tore into Obama about Rev. Wright.

My personal fear is even though Obama is ahead in the polls by 5 to 7 points that is still too close b/c there is an unknown percentage of racists out there who could easily swing the votes to McSame and Caribou Barbie. It's the fate of The Supreme Court, people. It's the LGBT community having fewer rights as American citizens than undocumented workers. It's the collapse of the US as we now know it or remember how it was 8 years ago. It's totally frightening.

After watching the clip of Sarah Palin's circular response regarding the bailout...I was reminded of both McCain and Obama's confusing and evasive bailout speak at the beginning of the presidential debate.